Derek Thompson
Writer @TheAtlantic. "Plain English" podcast host @Ringer. Co-author of Abundance.
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Derek Thompson
Something strange, and potentially alarming, is happening to the job market for young, educated workers. According to the New York Federal Reserve, labor conditions for recent college graduates have “deteriorated noticeably” in the past few months, and the unemployment rate now stands at an unusually high 5.8 percent. Even newly minted M.B.A.s from elite programs are struggling to find work.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Derek Thompson
The dead giveaway that ChatGPT wrote your content - and how to work around itIf you use ChatGPT to write emails, essays, and more, you will want to make this small tweak. I have been testing ChatGPT since it launched in …
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3 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Derek Thompson
Like land wars in Asia, trade wars with China are, generally speaking, unadvisable. But if, for whatever reason, you were insistent on the idea, you’d want to follow two rules. First, find strength in numbers. China is an industrial juggernaut with more than 1 billion citizens. The U.S. is a finance-and-tech giant with fewer than 400 million people. To maximize success, the U.S. would have to assemble an Avengers team of trading partners across North America, Europe, and Asia.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Derek Thompson
BEIJING (AP) — In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital on Saturday. The bipedal robots of various makes and sizes navigated the 21.1-kilometer (13.1-mile) course supported by teams of human …
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Derek Thompson
Trump’s tariff plan looks like an abject disaster for America, even judged against the benchmarks the administration has set for itself. Imagine this: One day on a walk in your neighborhood, you see several men in construction gear. “What are you guys up to?” you ask. “We’re rebuilding this dilapidated house!” the group’s leader responds. “It used to be beautiful, but the previous owners let it fall into disrepair.”Admittedly, the home has been an eyesore for years.
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RT @cafedujord: Pope Leo XIV is an Abundance Guy, we absolutely love to see it https://t.co/f0kX1xGvXp
Such an important point. Nothing in modern economic history—certainly not globalization—has more reliably hurt median income growth than recessions. But rather than be obsessed with avoiding a recession, the admin is casually risking a recession by shutting down trade …
“Avoiding recessions, especially long ones, is important” is a kind of boring take about middle class well-being but I think underrated compared to more conceptually ambitious takes. https://t.co/PHxau3Niix
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This is great- The abundance movement has a 30-member bipartisan bloc in Congress called the “Build America Caucus,” focused on cutting red tape around energy and housing so we can build faster, better, and cheaper. https://t.co/meEUEpMX1W
